History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.